Fastening for pocket-book



(No Model.)

L. B. PRAHAR. FASTENINGFOB- POCKET BOOK, PURSE, 0R SATGHEL FRAMES. No. 397,248. Patented Feb. 5, 1889.

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I. O U I S H. PRAIIAR, ()F BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

' FASTENING FOR POCKET-BOOK, PURSE, OR SATCHEL FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,248, dated February 5, 1889.

Application filed October 25, 1888. Serial No. 289,139. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Louis B. PRAHAR, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Fastening for Pocket-Book, Purse, or Satchel Frames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide an exceedingly simple, cheap, and durable fastening for satchel or analogous frames, the invention consistin g, essentially, of a twopart frame, a spring-strip secured at each end to one of the frame members and arranged to engage the other frame member, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, formingapartof this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a perspective view of a pocketbook to which my improved fastening has been applied. Fig. 2 is an. enlarged side view of the frame shown in Fig. l..- Fig. 3 .is a central cross-sectional view of the fran'ie, and Fig. t is a corresponding view of a modified construction.

In the drawings, 10 and 11 represent the two parts or members of a frame, A, said parts or members being bent at a. and c and hinged or pivotally connected at their ends in the ordinary manner. To one of the frame members I connect ametallic strip, 13, the strip being soldered or otherwise secured to its supporting member at each end. The strip 12) is arranged to engage the other member of the frame, and is mounted in a position such that when the two parts or members of the frame are brought together, as shown in the drawings, the strip will overlap andhide the abutting edges of the said two parts.

In practice I prefer to bend the strip 13 so that it will extend over the corners c and a of the frame A, so proportionin g the strip that its ends will extend almost to the pivot or hinge joint by which the two parts of the frame are connected. The st rip 13 is provided with a thumb-piece, ll, said thumbpicce being first bent downward and then upward and away from the frame, as shown in Fig. I, so that when the two parts of the frame are brought together the thumb-piece will engage that one of the frame members to which it not directly connected. In case the frame member 10 is provided with a stud or pin, 12, as shown in the first three figures of the drawings, the thumb-piece would be formed with an aperture, 0, arranged so that it would be entered by the stud 12, the outer edge of the thumb-piece in this case being bent upward and away from the frame, in order that when the two parts of the frame are brought together the stud would clear the edge of the thumb-piece and strike against its upwardlyflaring under surface, Z), thereby raising the strip 13 and permitting the two frame members to come together, the aperture 0 being so located that when the adjacent edges of the said frame members meet the stud would enter the aperture and the two parts of the frame would be firmly locked together.

To open the frame, the strip 13 is centrally raised by pressure applied to the thumb-piece or otherwise, and immediately upon the disengagement of the thumb-piece from the free frame member 10 the two members of the frame may be moved apart.

As before stated, the strip 13 may be 0011- nected to its frame member in any desired manner, and in Fig. l I have shown said strip as being connected by the frame-uniting rivets and by other rivets, f, placed as shown.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a two-part frame, of a metallic spring-strip secured at each end to one of the frame members, said springstrip being adapted to engage the other frame member, as and for the purpose stated.

2. The combination, with a two-part frame, of a metallic spring-strip secured at each end to one of the frame members, said spring-strip being provided'with a thumb-piece adapted to engage the other frame member, as and for the purpose stated.

3. The combination, with a two-part frame, of a stud carried by one of the frame members and a metallic spring-strip secured at each end to the other frame member, said spring-strip being adapted to engage the stud, as and for the purpose stated.

6. The combination, with a two-part frame, bent as described, of a metallic springetrip secured to one of the frame members and adapted to CI'lg'flgG the other frame member, the strip being continued over the bends of the frmne, Substantially as described.

LOUIS 13. PRAHAR.

\Vitnesses:

EDWARD KENT, Jr. SEDGWICK. 

